Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump releasing a budget that funnels $54 billion to the military while gutting funds for the arts, humanities and foreign aid; the Ninth Circuit indicates the Defense Department may have to reconsider how it will operate a controversial new military base on Okinawa; an Arizona House panel approves a bill requiring doctors to perform life-saving measures on a fetus or embryo if it still has a heartbeat following an abortion, and more.

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The budget blueprint President Donald Trump released Thursday morning would funnel $54 billion more toward the military in 2018, offset by deep cuts to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic groups.

The Ninth Circuit indicated Wednesday that the Defense Department may have to reconsider how it will operate a controversial new military base on Okinawa, to protect the endangered Okinawa dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal.

By a single vote Wednesday, San Diego County supervisors Wednesday banned medical and recreational marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas, rather than merely limiting them, as advised by the Planning Commission.

Sixty-three miles of Oregon’s Rogue River cannot be designated a Wild and Scenic River because it’s been extensively modified by ranchers and miners, cattlemen claim in suing the Department of the Interior.